Then he looked up at his disciples and said: ‘Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.‘Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. ‘Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. ‘Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, […]
URC Daily Devotion 20th January 2019
1 God stands in the great assembly,judging gods who gather there:2 “How long will you clear the wickedwith the judgments you declare? 3 “Vindicate the weak and orphans,and the rights of those oppressed.4 Save the weak, support the needy;from the wicked give them rest.” 5 They are void of understanding;no right judgment can they make.On […]
URC Daily Devotion 19th January 2019
He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean […]
URC Daily Devotion 18th January 2019
Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and […]
URC Daily Devotion 17th January 2019
On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were thinking, he said […]
URC Daily Devotion 16th January 2019
One sabbath while Jesus was going through the cornfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’ Jesus answered, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his companions […]
URC Daily Devotion 15th January 2019
Then they said to him, ‘John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.’ Jesus said to them, ‘You cannot make wedding-guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then […]
URC Daily Devotion 14th January 2019
After this he went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up, left everything, and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others sitting at […]
URC Daily Devotion 13th January 2019
1 Sing for joy to God our Saviour;shout aloud to Jacob’s Lord!2 Start the music; strike the timbrel;play on strings a pleasing chord. 3 Sound the trumpet at the New Moonand at the full moon as well,4 At the feast by God appointedand decreed for Israel. 5 God ordained this law for Josephwhen he ravaged […]
URC Daily Devotion 12th January 2019
One day, while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting nearby (they had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem); and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. Just then some men came, carrying a paralysed man on a bed. They were trying to […]